Status Updates From Acedia and Its Discontents:...

Having completed the preface and introduction, I’m smitten.

“Sloth’s cure is staying in the cell, remaining yolked to the work God has given, including the universal vocation of the creation mandates, the task of our particular vocations as individuals, and the various disciplines of a well-ordered life. While perhaps unromantic, this settling into our cell allows for virtue, since natural virtue requires habituation.”